2020 will be the year of retirement for two important Microsoft products: the old operating system for Windows 7 computers, and the operating system for Windows 10 Mobile smartphones, which represents a failure of the Redmond company in the telephony sector.
The farewell to Windows 10 Mobile was scheduled for December 10 last year, but Microsoft decided to extend its life a bit. The operating system support will therefore cease next January 14, the same day that the word will end on Windows 7, born in 2009 and now obsolete. From the next day, users who still have Windows 7 will see a full-screen message that urges them to switch to Windows 10, and maybe even change PCs in favor of a more modern one.
January 15th will also be the day of a debut at Microsoft: the new Edge browser for surfing the net. The software is based on Chromium, the free browser created by Google that is at the base of Chrome. The choice - motivated the company a year ago - was made with the aim of "creating better web compatibility for our customers and less web fragmentation for all developers".